misc Win Passes To <i>Showgirls</i> at Midnight Mass With Peaches Christ If you've never been to Midnight Mass, dive into the deep end with this tale of a young girl who comes to sin city to make it big -- with unintentionally hilarious consequences.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: They Love the '70s at Marines Memorial Theatre We admit we were a little skeptical when we heard about this Janis Joplin musical. After all, remember Lennon, the musical that premiered here and closed after a month
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Live on the Edge at Intersection for the Arts Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch is one of the most exciting younger artists San Francisco has to offer, and has blown our mind with her past two shows. This
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppins Have no Need fer Formalities Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Swarthy youngster: "It was the drunkest I've been since I was underage." -- From Trecko/In the Haight Hippie chick: "You
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Peaches Christ But when we got a release on This Year's Midnight Mass Film Series (which runs at midnights every Friday and Saturday from tonight until mid-August, see the complete schedule here), we knew we
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Victor Navasky's <i>A Matter of Opinion</i>! Times have changed -- now, we're far more likely to try to pass off the thoughts of Lisa Schwarzbaum as our own, but that doesn't mean our fondness for Navasky has decreased even
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Selected Shakespeare San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Free Shakespeare in the Park returns with starring the magnificent Julian Lopez-Morrilas as Prospero. (If you haven't seen this man in action, you're missing out.) Local director Kenneth Kelleher
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Old Lit, New School at Magic Theatre When our dreams of home ownership conjures visions of $1 million fixer-uppers and our futures are laden with credit card debt, the story of the American Dream seems about as
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Make Us Laugh at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre All hail the trendiest celebrity vehicle--no, it's not a Hummer. It's the solo show. The likes of Billy Crystal and Martin Short have already ridden through town on them,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Oh, The Horror at Magic Theatre Killer Joe is one of the best plays so far in 2006. Why haven't you seen it, you wonder? Probably because it played way the hell up in Mill Valley,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Crossing Genres at the Magic Theatre Christmas, in May? Well, yeah. The Magic Theatre rearranged its season a bit. But The Long Christmas Ride Home may be worth the wait. Penned by Paula Vogel as
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Of War and Blood at Traveling Jewish Theatre FoolsFury packed Traveling Jewish Theatre on Sunday night with friends, funders, foreign consulates and, of course, the press for anticipated opening night of its world premiere English translation of
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Geary Street at the Curran Theatre Spend any amount of time in a Muni or BART station and you'll find that you can't escape the ads for Martin Short's new musical, a pre-Broadway world premiere
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: We Stalk Matt Dillon We decided to while away the hours between the two movies in the press room watching a documentary on a personal monitor but through our headphones we could hear distressed SFIFF workers whispering
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Send in the Divas DivaFest at Exit Theatre Exit Theatre's DivaFest features female artists who actually have talent to back up their diva title. (Though you may find a transvestite in the mix.) Leading the festival is
Arts & Entertainment Last Chance To Win Passes to SFist Night at Impact Theatre! There's less than one day left to enter to win passes to SFist night at Impact Theatre! We're taking over all of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) on Thursday, April 20
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To SFist Night at Impact Theatre! Join us on Thursday, April 20 at 8 p.m. as Impact turns all of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) over to our readers. We hope they know what they're getting
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Solo Shows at The Marsh Baloney is usually something to be avoided at all costs--unless Dan Piraro is involved. Yep, that Bizarro cartoonist has his own solo show, and he's thrown in just about every
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Berkeley Edition at Berkeley Repertory Theatre We don't know what's bigger news: the fact that Rita Moreno stars in The Glass Menagerie, one of the greatest plays in the American canon, or the fact that
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone, Again at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Who said interactive theater is uncool? One of the coolest things about Culture Clash's production of Zorro in Hell is that you can download your very own Zorro mask
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>ABDUCTION The Megumi Yokota Story</i> is a documentary about the 1977 kidnapping of 13-year-old Japanese school girl, Megumi Yokota and the decades-long odyssey her parents go through to get to the bottom of her disappearance. Chris Sheridan and
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Birds and the Trees Matthew Bourne's at Orpheum Theatre Not since Mark Morris's The Hard Nut or the antics of Les Ballets Trocadero de Monte Carlo has the Bay Area seen anything quite like Matthew Bourne's all-male
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Grain in the Ear</i> The film festival representative who introduced this movie described it as "challenging," which we think may just be a euphemism for slow--but not in a bad way. If you're used to the fast